Topics: Perceptions of community. Social, political and economic safety during COVID-19

Title: Speaking of Care: When in Community, We All Count

Participants: Blue Andrade

Publish Date: 02 /20/2021

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Discussion Topics:

Perspectives on community.

Returning from Cuba to U.S pandemic

How did Cuba respond to COVID- 19 differently from the United States?

What happened to the workers when the employers stopped paying the extra $2 pay for working during the quarantine?

Are we experiencing different perceptions of reality?

Is the government also part of our community?

What is fake concern?

Is it genuine for the government to state that it cares for peoples’ safety , If the police a government official place people at risk of injury?

How did the private companies become wealthier during COVID-19 while so many people were struggling?

Is the United States of America a country of contradictions?

Can the government trust the people?

How do communities protect one another when the government does not protect the people?

How has the quarantine affected the work of the communities of care?

During the shutdown, we can see the transparency of the capital extraction system.

Why the words socialist, radical, and activist taboo?

How do we speak with full optimism of this things we want?

What are the contradictions in system that requires you to play but makes it hard to play the game?

Topics: Music, Culture, Community-building

Title: Music, Culture and Community in the Time of COVID

Participants: Eduardo Valencia, Musician and Music Educator

Publish Date: 02 /04/2021

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What is the role of music in community?

How is music central to understanding people?

How have musicians been affected by COVID-19?

For many musicians there may not be a return to normal after COVID.

Should musicians be considered essential workers?

Why do most people assume music is a hobby?

Is music a form of language?

How do we support musicians during this COVID-19 shut down?

How does music express community membership?

How does music serve as an anchor to define community?

Can music cross assumptions of cultural divides?

Is music a type of language?

Can music communicate across generational time?

How does language serve as an archive of information?

How did Richie Valens learn the song “La Bamba?”

What does it mean to grid the music?

What is the future of music?

Topics: January 6, 2021, DC Capital Trump Riot, Insurgency .

Title: When Does a Riot Become a Coup d’état?

Participants: Dave Poyer,

Publish Date: 01/19/2021

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Discussion Topics:

Is the for-profit model of health care designed to address the COVID-19 pandemic?

How do we make sense of what happened on January 6, 2021 in Washington D.C.?

When was the last time that the capital was ran sacked?

The rioting in D.C was not an accident.

What were the logistics necessary to get over 66, 000 people to the US capital on January 6?

At what point does a riot become an insurrection?

How do political street fights move to political parties?

Is the Hawaiian shirt a coded uniform for the “proud boys?”

What will be the risk to the “ right of assembly” resulting from the January 6, 2021 protest that that turned into an unlawful entry into the Washington D.C. Capital?

Will peaceful protests become criminalized because of the actions of the DC rioters?

Is there a difference in calling the actions of the entry into the capital, an insurrection instead of coup d’état?

What is the difference between legitimate and illegitimate power-grab?

Why did we create funny memes of the people that entered the capital instead of taking actions of the rioters more seriously?

How did information become weaponized?

Topics: Education, Students , COVID 19, Zoom fatigue

Title: Teaching and Learning Under COVID19: Adjusting to the moment.

Participants: Precious Fasakin

Publish Date: 12/17/20

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Discussion Topics:

What is the student perspective to remote learning in response to COVID19?

How do teachers feel about teaching during COVID19?

How do we go to college under COVID 19?

How did “zoom” change the way we decompress from school time?

Why did school expectations change from insecurity]at start of the shut down to the present high demands?

What was lost in the transition from in-person education to online classes?

Can Educators acknowledge that this school moment is not normal?

How are the roles of teachers and students changed under a COVID19 education?

What does school look like when we put students first, people first, and community first?

How are teachers supposed to ask students to turn in work , when they might have had a death in the family as result of COVID19?

Why do educators second-guess themselves in their ability to teach appropriately and effectively under COVID19?

Can we be open about our vulnerability as students or teachers?

Maybe our fatigue is not with learning but more specifically we are tired of being on the computer?

What is screen fatigue?

Why are some students struggle with the online format, while other students are succeeding?

Can we adjust to this emergency by accessing opportunity to adjust for greater potential?

How do we take inventory of the things that did not work while teaching online ?

What are some successes of online teaching?

This pandemic has forced us to imagine better futures.

How has teaching ton online instruction changed the physical university model?

This pandemic has highlighted the importance the support of office administrator, technical , registrar and maintenance in keeping the university system running.

The reliance on video classrooms has forced a reveal that did not exist before.

Is asking students to turn on their cameras and unwarranted invitation to their homes?

Why do most teachers have a bookshelf in the background of their videos?

Topics: Politics, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2020 Presidential Elections , Government Bail Outs

Title: Politics of COVID19: Is This Our Chernobyl Moment?

Participants: Dave Poyer, Political Junky

Publish Date: 10/2/20

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Discussion Topics:

How much has changed in the world of US Politics?

Will the death of judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg affect the Presidential election?

Is the American Care Act at risk with a replacement supreme court judge?

Why did the democratic party settle for the ACA instead of single payer Medicare system for all?

Is government designed to represent the common folks?

Was the 2020 Care Act the greatest upward transfer of wealth in recent US History?

Is the COVID moment our Chernobyl moment?

Why did we bail out the cruise shop companies?

Does Naomi Klein’s book, The Shock Doctrine help explain transformative political and capitalism changes?

How does the politics of an Appalachian coal town differ from downtown Los Angeles?

Is Donald Trump’s wealth equivalent to the 1%?

What is the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee?

If you can’t raise 2 million dollars just from the contracts in your cell phone, then the DCCC doesn’t want you?

Why did the DCCC oppose Alexandra Ocasio-Cortes’s political run?

Are corporate interests shaping the rise of global conservative nationalism?

Are people realizing that they are like serfs, or wage-slaves?

What kind of economy do we have where there is over supply of food and homes yet there is an increasing percentage of people hungry and without shelter?

Capitalism is full of inconsistencies.

Topics: History, Police Violence, Police accountability. Labor, Community Safety

Title: It’s Not a Trend: History of Police as Violence and Community Voices for Accountability

Participants: David Chavez, Historian

Release Date: 09/18/20

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Discussion Topics:

What is the history of police violence in USA?

What did the Black Panthers and Brown Berets say about violence from the police?

Were the police held accountable for starting riots to stop the labor movement?

What was the police involvement in the Haymarket Massacre of May 4, 1886?

What was the police involvement in the Black Wallstreet Massacre of Tulsa Oklahoma May 31 and June 1, 1921?

When did police take part in lynching?

“It’s not [ a trend] to bring up the issue of police violence, In fact it is historical”- David Chavez

How do the military patterns of no-knock raids in Afghanistan become visible in the no-knock raids by police at home.

The attention on police violence has grown to the point that Teen Vogue has articles addressing police abuse.

Why do people try to frame the attention on police accountability as an inverse discussion to police killed on duty?

For some communities calling the police for help means risking injury by the same police that respond to the call.

What is the connection between the present police and the slave patrols of the 1800’s?

What is state abandonment?

How can we examine the relationship between Whiteness and policing?

Can people perceive themselves as White by being on the side of police?

Is the police an organization that is anti- labor movement?

What happens when we apply police accountability as an employment issue?

How do we learn to self-regulate our movements as a response of fear of being targeted by the police?

Topics: History, Anthropology, Labor Rights, Society, Society Changes

Title: History and Anthropology Perspectives: Past, Present (COVID-19), and Future

of Labor and Society

Participants: Elliot Kim, Historian

Release Date: 09/08/20

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Discussion Topics:

“Hustory” is the human story.

What happens when you intersect labor rights as lived experiences with the academic perspective of a Historian?

How does the long history of people advocating for a just compensation of their labor, connect to the present COVID19 labor issues?

Why do we need to work 40 hours a week?

How will our work patterns change as a result of COVID-19?

How did the “unskilled worker” get reclassified as an essential worker?

Is there a difference between Hazard-pay and Equitable-pay?

What happens to the people that cannot do their jobs remotely?

Can we update an employment model that is approximately 200-years-old?

How do we recognize dignity in all labor?

Are the creative opportunities of employment changes being co-opted to reproduce exploitation of labor?

Did Adam Smith believe it was economically more advantageous to convert a slave into an employee?

Do employers only see workers as non-human capital?

As a human being, how do you want to participate on this planet?

People power

Ludlow Massacre of April 20, 1914. Why did the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel and Iron Company guards attack 1,200 striking coal miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado?

How do we dream big? Dream beyond the expectations of being reasonable.

Have you read Looking Backward by Edward Belamy?

What is the utopian vision for labor for an equitable world?

What is the difference between a living wage, family wage and a fair wage?

Does the arc of history bend toward justice or chaos?

Change is constant.

Are expressions of our power as individuals, able to change our reality?

Did COVID-19 sever our sense of collective work experiences?

How fast can we change society, to make it more equitable for everyone that is currently struggling?

Can we turn around society for the better in a week?

History happens through incremental changes but also through abrupt shifts and marked moments.

Was Emit Till killed as a result of a lie from Carolyn Bryant?

What is your perception of time?

How do we image the future?

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”

–Milan Kundera

Is history cyclical?

What are useful physical tools for understanding concepts such as History, Society and Time?

How do we acknowledge our own agency to do better?

Topic: Cultivo Nepantla, Mycelium, Cancun, Mushrooms, Sustainable Future,

Title: Cultivo Nepantla:Working with Mycelium, Knowledge and Community.

Participants: Susie Sanchez Valenzuela and Alfonso Enrique Valenzuela, Founders of Cultivo Nepantla

Release Date: 08/20/20

Time: 5:15 PM (PST)

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Find out about Cultivo Nepanta on:

–Instagram.com/cultivo_nepantal

–facebook.com/ cultivo- nepantla

–youtube.com- Clean Cancun-Sustainable Urban Mushroom Farm

Can you move from Riverside to Cancun Mexico to get change in perspective?

What happens when you ask, “who are we?,” “where do we come from?”

How do we explain our move to leave the United states when older generations risked so much to enter the United States?

Would our movements be more free-flowing, if national borders did not exist?

Did the grand-parents of our grand-parents have the same life questions that we have today?

What are some things that you cannot take with you when you move from the United States to Mexico?

What does it mean to be “Mexican- American” in Mexico?

How do we acknowledge that our past experiences are preparation for this time we are now living?

Can we accept starting from zero as a necessary experience of growth?

How do we convert non-assets in the United States into assets in Mexico?

How did COVID-19 affect the tourist industry in Cancun?

COVID-19 shut down global economies but also created new opportunities?

What does the term Nepantla mean?

Nepantla means, occupying the spaces in-between.

Creating a bridge with people, knowledge and community.

How does the mushroom connect our world in endless ways?

What is the circular economy?

This moment is asking for something new.

What can we learn from mushrooms?

Mycelium connects our natural world.

Can Mycelium be used to breakdown cardboard?

What are the rules for how resources are produced, distributed and consumed in the local economy?

What are the many possibilities for Cultivo Nepantla?

Can we convert waste into food?

Follow Cultivo Nepantla on social Media.

What is the funding campaign to support the growth of Cultivo Nepantla?

How did COVID-19 transform how we look but cannot transform what we care about?

Creating a network of knowledge and support.

How are we preparing for the future after COVID-19?

Support Cultivo Nepantla by donating ,

Topic: Qualified Immunity, Law, Police Accountability, Right to jury trail

Title: Qualified Immunity: Unreasonable Standards

Participants: John Burton, Civil Rights Attorney www.johnburtonlaw.com

Release Date: 08/02/20

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What is qualified Immunity?

How does qualified immunity relate to the national mass movements for police accountability?

The modern era of police misconducted litigation starts in the 1960’s with the Warren Court.

What is the Federal Civil right act of 1871?

Why is section 1983 of 1871 Civil right act important?

What is an unreasonable seizure under the 4th amendment?

How did the good faith defense under common law turn into qualified immunity?

If the officer did not know that her/ his actions violated a prior existing law, then does qualified immunity apply?

Is qualified immunity judge-made?

Is an unreasonable arrest, a violation of the 4th amendment?

Does qualified immunity undercut congressional policy and the intent of section 1983 of Civil rights Act of 1871?

How do you overcome qualified immunity?

If the police officers did not know that their actions apply to a violation of a specific law, then qualified immunity averts a trial?

How does qualified immunity deprive plaintiffs from their 7th amendment right, a right to jury trial?

How did video change the perception of police actions of abuse?

How did cases of police misconduct change after the 1992 Rodney King case?

What is the relationship of police militarization and the current issue of police abuse?

What is the role of police in a capitalist society?

Is qualified immunity intended to protect the personal assets of police officers as individuals?

If an officer violates the constitution, then the agency of the officer is responsible for the damages?

Can police officers be held to the same legal standard as drivers and doctors?

How does qualified immunity maintain class relationships intact?

Why does the repeated practice of relying on prior cases of constitutional violations to prove as standards, results in a deterioration potential clear standard to serve as objective tests?

Qualified Immunity takes the decisions of a trial from the jury and gives it to the judges?

What are current supreme court cases dealing with qualified immunity?

Congress has the power to end qualified immunity.

Topic: Indigena, Indigenous Identity, Chicana Studies, Chicana Community

Title: Towards Definitions of Indigena and Chicana Membership: A Conversation

Participants: Dean Mayorga

Broadcast Air Date: 07/10/20

Time: 5:15 PM (PST)

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Discussion Topics:

Have you read the article, How the Chican@ Discourse Silences Indigenous Peoples from Mexico + Central Americans?

Available at, https://medium.com/@jessicabhdz/how-the-chican-discourse-silences-indigenous-peoples-from-mexico-central-americans-b72b5897ad26

Is there a difference between being indigenous and identifying as indigenous ancestry or indigenous descendant?

What does Indigeneity mean within Chicana and Brown context?

What is relationship between defining indigenous and racism?

Is indigenous classification marked by assessments of being other than or less than White?

Chicana is an inclusive term?

What is the difference between Chicana Studies as academic and outside Chicana lived experience?

How do we take ownership of own experiences and our own names?

“The book of indigeneity cannot close off at colonization.” – Dean

Chicanas express old and new traditions

How do we learn to own our ways of membership?

Is there a disconnection between the field of Chicana studies and the communities of Chicanas, Chicanx and Chicanos?

An act of remembrance

Why does the nation-state want to erase indigenous definitions and instead accept Hispanic and Latino labels?

How did the theory of Mestizaje influence Chicana Studies and Chicana communities?

What happens to Mesitizaje discourse if we access race deconstruction material?

How did the adoption in belief in mestizaje produce a platform of loss?

What is the role of colorism for light skinned Chicanx/Chicanas/Chicanos?

Can you take a DNA test to find out if you are indigenous or Spanish?

Indigeneity is political and

How does the Hispanic and Latino movement erase indigenous definitions?

How do we acknowledge the power to control the terms we will use to name ourselves?

Do you have to apologize for being person that has moved from one land base to another?

What is the role of social media in redefining Chicanisma?

Is Chicana Studies changing more now than before?

Is being Chicana in constant flux?

How did Chicanas get repackaged as Hispanics?

The politics of renaming.

How often is Chicana Studies updated?